Bad menus in Totsugeki Mix

Posted on 2023-05-28, 12:15

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by BlackVega

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What is the cause of broken menus in this game? They are all broken in the exact same way on all of my machines. The gameplay level looks all fine. This game originally came on PC-98 but this is an MS-DOS port for regular PCs. Is this just some fast and lazy port? Well, the only thing it looks …

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Re: What is the purpose of that 7.2V built in battery in most notebooks?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 18:51

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am NOT talking about the main big battery that powers the entire system. I'm talking about the other battery connected to the motherboard through wires that looks similar to CMOS battery but it isn't (or is it?)

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What is the purpose of that 7.2V built in battery in most notebooks?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 07:38

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is that inner 7.2V battery supposed to do in most laptops? I know there is always another battery that is supposed to store CMOS data and it's rated 3V/3.3V/3.6V so what is the purpose of that bigger one that is rated around 7V? This one is especially crappy because it tends to leak the most on …

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Re: Please help troubleshoot Toshiba 430CDS/430CDT not turning on

Posted on 2023-05-22, 18:32

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I try to come back to repairing those laptops. I can see there is some battery leakage on the motherboard. Not huge but it's still there. Just tested some tracks with a multimeter and they still connect. I will dig deeper later. I'm thinking about doing a recap but right now I can see there are just …

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Toshiba 300CDT - broken Sound Blaster PCM playback

Posted on 2023-05-21, 10:06

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by BlackVega

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I got a Toshiba 300CDT recently and this one works flawlessly, at least for now. As far as I know this one has integrated YMF715 sound chip but the PCM playback in some games is broken. In Duke Nukem 2, Duke fires a few gunshots in the intro screen and it goes silent. The target moving is always …

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Re: Super Frog no audio on Thinkpad 560E (ESS1688)

Posted on 2022-08-02, 16:57

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by BlackVega

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Huh LOL but this is exactly what I was doing! Well, reinstallation and different Windows 98 versions didn't help and I still get that stupid run-time error. It appears to appear at random whenever I install or change something in Winblows. However I must say this error never appears in DOS mode. …

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Re: Super Frog no audio on Thinkpad 560E (ESS1688)

Posted on 2022-08-01, 17:39

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by BlackVega

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While I keep working on reinstalling Windows 98 and experiment with different compact flash cards I have another question- is there any way to load a CD-ROM image with a DOS game in Daemon Tools under Windows 98 and have audio CD playing on a Thinkpad 560E? I loaded Shadow Warrior this way on my …

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Re: Super Frog no audio on Thinkpad 560E (ESS1688)

Posted on 2022-08-01, 11:38

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is one of solutions but holy crap, is there any way to legitimately repair Windoze?? This is very hard to find anything useful regarding that error message. One big reason I want to have Windows 98 fully functional with DOS games is because I can set up a virtual CD under Winblows very easily …

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Re: Super Frog no audio on Thinkpad 560E (ESS1688)

Posted on 2022-07-31, 21:25

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by BlackVega

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Also I ran into another issue. Right now the ESSCFG enables those setting I put in the autoexec, however right now it also adds these 2 lines at the end. I believe this didn't happen before: run-time error R6001 - null pointer assignment I have no idea but either this or something else just fucks my …

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Re: Super Frog no audio on Thinkpad 560E (ESS1688)

Posted on 2022-07-31, 17:27

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AHA I believe what you explained did the trick. I downloaded the drivers (or configuration utilities, whatever it should be called) and I added these lines to my autoexec from one of the readme files and edited them like this: C:\AUDIO\ESSCFG.EXE /M:e /B:330 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 P330 And yep, …

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Super Frog no audio on Thinkpad 560E (ESS1688)

Posted on 2022-07-31, 10:44

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I obtained an IBM Thinkpad 560E a few days ago specifically for DOS gaming and so far it absolutely rocks! I installed Windows 98SE and, to my surprise, all drivers were automatically installed, all of them. I noticed DOS games have Adlib audio in Windows mode and even in MS-DOS mode without any …

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Re: Please help troubleshoot Toshiba 430CDS/430CDT not turning on

Posted on 2022-07-28, 10:16

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Random behavior like this is usually power related. Ah yes this is what I figured out as well after so many tries. It is probably power related or some sort of global issue because every time the outcome was drastically different with no consistency. Actually I unscrewed the 430CDS and it looked …

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Re: Please help troubleshoot Toshiba 430CDS/430CDT not turning on

Posted on 2022-07-27, 12:04

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you but first I need to figure out what's even going on with these laptops and... at this point I wouldn't be surprised if your 430 just dies after a short period of time. These results are severely inconsistent. I tried to boot up the 430CDS a few times and sometimes I got other error codes: …

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Please help troubleshoot Toshiba 430CDS/430CDT not turning on

Posted on 2022-07-27, 11:10

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I obtained a Toshiba 430CDT a while ago as untested. Unfortunately I wasn't very lucky because it did not turn on at all... The ON LED turned on but that was about it. I could hear the HDD spinning up but the LCD screen did not display anything, not even an external monitor. Oh well, at least the …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2022-07-15, 20:43

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Considering surfing the modern web on old hardware then... heh I think you wrote way too much and I think I get the point anyway. However, considering your situation- if you somehow surf the net on DOS (I don't know why would anyone do that anyway) then I can say YES. You are using a 16bit operating …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2022-07-14, 19:43

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also if you scoff at the idea of browsing the internet with ancient computers, then perhaps you are new here, or have no sense of fun. I tried this several years back and this was no fun at all for me. Not to mention it is incredibly dangerous to do today. Maybe I'm a completely different kind of …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2022-07-14, 19:09

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by BlackVega

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vorob wrote on 2022-07-14, 18:45: where is the so called perfect laptop for DOS? Here: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop OK this is great to hear someone finally found the answer! I will be happy to read about it

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2022-07-14, 18:28

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by BlackVega

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So far you haven't found your "perfect" laptop for over 2 and a half years, despite having access to all of the information available and going over dozens of models before and you start to run out of IBM Thinkpad models. This kinda proves the point. Where is the answer?

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2022-07-14, 17:22

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by BlackVega

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

To answer the original question- did you consider Thinkpad 390E/390X? I'm not sure if this is the "perfect" laptop for DOS gaming but... where is the so called perfect laptop for DOS?? I don't think there is one. I personally think you need at least 2 laptops- one that is capable of DOS gaming and …

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Re: Volo's Gamepad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (official thread) SHIPMENT POSTPONED DUE TO WAR (26.02.2022)

Posted on 2022-07-04, 21:11

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by BlackVega

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I received this product today. I can already say it is top quality as much as possible. Build quality and functionality is top notch. Most importantly, all buttons respond very fast and feels like real time, 0 lag. This is basically PC consolizer or at least that's how I would call it. This is …

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